Gorenja vas

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Gorenja vas (Eng. Obersdorf ) is a Slovenian village about 35 km east of the capital Ljubljana (Eng. Laibach ) and belongs to the municipality of Ivančna Gorica in Lower Carniola . The approximately 90 inhabitants are mostly farmers and do forestry, cattle breeding and arable farming. There is a mill with a sawmill, two carpenters and a fruit drying company in the village.

location

The village forms its own cadastral community . The place is located on a slope and east of the road that leads from Ivančna Gorica south to Muljava (Eng. Mullau ).

About four kilometers north of Gorenja vas is the Stična monastery , and also about four kilometers to the west is the town of Višnja Gora (German: Weichselberg ) with the ruins of the former ancestral seat of the Counts of Weichselberg .

At the house - commonly known as "Skrun" called - with the number 9, a plaque is attached to the Slovenian poet Miha Kastelic reminds, who was born in this house on 1 September 1796th Kastelic was the founder and spiritus rector of the font Kranjska Čbelica (German: Krainer bees ).

literature

  • Leksikoni Cankarjeve založbe - Slovenska književnost (Lexica of the Cankar Verlag - Slovenian Literature), Ljubljana 1982
  • Mihael Glavan: Miha Kastelic, Ljubljana 1990